"Diane Echer is a cool and deadly observer of complex human relations.
Vaults of Power is hypnotic, and in its own quiet way, deeply shocking."
Jonathan Galassi, President, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Vaults of Power is hypnotic, and in its own quiet way, deeply shocking."
Jonathan Galassi, President, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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_"The author has a great feel for action and pacing and features some thrilling sequences in compelling locations from European crypts to a library at Yale..."
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"Fans of summer
thriller blockbusters should find plenty to like here..." (Kirkus Indie Review) |
_"Echer has a great eye for detail; it's easy to visualize her characters and their settings, to see the action unfolding. And Echer is adept at choreographing action scenes..."
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Vaults of Power was shortlisted for the Indie Reader Discovery Awards of 2012
The Story
__One independent woman. Robyn Gabriel, a young historian
turned treasure hunter with a taste for one-night stands and a strained relationship with her twin. Two duty-driven men. A senior executive of the Federal Reserve, and a Chinese triad member. Six days to deliver an impossible ransom. When her twin is kidnapped in Southern France, Robyn Gabriel has six days to steal the precious Voynich manuscript from a bunker-like library at Yale University and break its code--a feat no cryptologist, linguist, scientist or software engineer has ever been able to accomplish. The Federal Reserve can’t allow that. Now, they want her dead. Caught between kidnappers and killers, from Florida to Austria, from France to New York, Robyn, shattered by the revelation of the origin of her own family, lifts each layer of a hundred-year-old conspiracy involving the Jesuits, the Federal Reserve, China and the sinking of the Titanic, and discovers the terrible pact that ensured the United States’ financial supremacy. Browse this website for free chapters of Vaults of Power, and for documents and resources supporting the plot ("The Appendix"). Download or order the entire novel now |
The Author
__ Diane
Echer is a French-American who spent most of her life in Europe, where
she practiced business law. She now lives in the United States and
writes about the real or (sometimes) imagined conspiracies she
encountered.
She is an alumna of the Writers' Institute at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and has been selected to be part of the Crime Fiction Academy at the Center for Fiction. Diane would love to hear from you. She will not share your information with anyone, ever. |
